Capítulo 703: Chapter 311: The Twenty-One Chan Masters
“Where’s your backup? Let see.”
Zhou Xuan stepped out of the shop, and Yun Ziliang, seeing Ya Zi describe it vividly, followed him out.
Lao Yun looked up at the moon in the sky,
The moon was bright and sparse, with a white moon wheel not covered by clouds. Lao Yun looked carefully, then turned back to give Zhao Wuya a slap on the back of his head, cursing, “Are you crazy? The moon is nothing but white light, where are the four helpers you ntioned?”
“I never said they were on the moon.”
Zhao Wuya felt a bit wronged.
“You’re like a rat, squatting here with your head raised, if not looking at the moon, then what?”
Yun Ziliang said irritably.
Zhao Wuya pointed in a direction and said, “I’m looking over there.”
In the distance, there was the vague shadow of mountains, and because it was too far away, it seed unreal.
Zhou Xuan looked in the direction Zhao Wuya pointed, but he didn’t see any backup, only a giant red door.
The giant door seed hidden in the shadow of the mountains, washed over by the ink-like night, and what should have been a bright red appeared elusive and dim.
“I’ll be right back.”
Zhou Xuan, known for his courage even praised by incense fire Taoists, paid no mind and ventured out with his Divine Soul Day Trip, stepping on clouds toward the giant door.
His Divine Soul Day Trip was as fast as Heaven and Earth Extre Speed, yet Zhou Xuan felt as if the door could also move; every few thousand miles he traveled, the door retreated just as much,
Back and forth, the giant door remained as distant as ever,
Seeing no hope of catching it, Zhou Xuan returned to the shop first.
“What a mysterious giant door.”
“You saw it too?”
Zhao Wuya asked.
“Yes.”
“Did you see the two big characters hanging on the door? Light… Shadow!”
“There were characters on the door?”
Zhou Xuan turned to look at Zhao Wuya.
“You didn’t see them, did you?” Zhao Wuya, with a satisfied expression, smiled and said, “Usually it’s Brother Xuan who sees everything while I see nothing, but today, the roles have reversed.”
He leaned back in a bamboo chair, crossing his legs, and smugly said, “Since none of you can see the words ‘Light and Shadow’, you definitely can’t see my four helpers.
They are four high monks, carried by countless magpies, with their hands pointing to their ears, making a hand seal praying for the Buddha’s blessing.”
Zhao Wuya’s words made Yun Ziliang blow his beard in exasperation, saying, “You little dragon-seeking Taoist, you seem to know a lot about the Buddhist world, knowing even about the ‘blessing hand seal’. For all I know, that Buddha is just phony, and their blessings just end up raising an Old Taotie.”
His words were full of sarcasm and riddles…
Zhou Xuan asked, “Lao Yun, it seems like there was more to your words. What’s this Old Taotie? What about the blessing hand seal? Explain it, you’ve hit upon my blind spot of knowledge.”
“As for Old Taotie, it’s actually a prediction from our Dragon Seeking Hall. From my personal perspective, this is seventy percent false and thirty percent true. Perhaps it’s a form of Buddhist heritage. Co… as your senior brother, I’ll explain the mystery to you, the junior brother who just entered the Seeking Gate…”
“Shut up, you’re not allowed to explain.”
Yun Ziliang scolded Zhao Wuya, then changed the topic, “I’ll explain.”
“Bah, you old Taoist, stealing my thunder.”
Zhao Wuya “freaked out” imdiately, showing disrespect to Yun Ziliang again.
Every few days, he would act rebelliously, and each ti he went overboard, he would be beaten fiercely by Yun Ziliang,
Yet this ti, Yun Ziliang remained extraordinarily calm; instead of taking off his shoe to beat him, he pulled up a chair and calmly explained, “How was Hidden Dragon Mountain destroyed? How did Xuanzi beco targeted by the Fire Sect?
Wasn’t it because they touched upon secrets? You’re young, and so secrets can be known, but it’s not your place to say them,
I’m a lonely wandering soul with little future prospects, so secrets should be told by , and if anyone pursues it afterward, I’ll take the responsibility.”
Yun Ziliang’s sudden warm words startled Zhao Wuya.
“Grand Master, you’re quite a sentintal person after all?”
“If I weren’t showing so sentint, a disobedient, stupid disciple like you would have been beaten senseless long ago.”
Yun Ziliang shot a look at Zhao Wuya, then said to Zhou Xuan, “The blessing hand seal is a mural from the Snow Mountain Zen Temple.”
To make it easier for Zhou Xuan to understand, Yun Ziliang didn’t continue directly but instead explained the main branches of the Buddhist sects in Jing Country.
“The Jing Country Zen Sect has three main branches, the most prominent being the Snow Mountain Zen Temple in Snow Mountain Prefecture, and the mountain is nad Zhuanlun Snow Mountain, this sect is known as ‘Zhuanlun Zen’,
The second branch originated in Yellow Field Prefecture, the monks there believe that worldly suffering is a fixed total amount, and by consuming more of the worldly sufferings themselves, others would suffer less,
They are known as ‘Suffering Mountain Zen’,
The third branch is much more secretive, preferring to live in caves; these monks do not build temples, mingle in the mortal world, or save souls from suffering, most of them live in caves or underground, staying in darkness for long periods,
Over ti, their vision deteriorated, with so even not having eyes,
This Zen sect is called ‘Blind Eye Zen’.
Yun Ziliang said, “But regardless of whether it’s ‘Blind Eye Zen’, ‘Zhuanlun Zen’, or ‘Suffering Mountain Zen’, their Ancestor Masters are the twenty-one first-generation Zen Masters who received the Ancient Buddha’s blessing.
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